Contains citations and abstracts to articles and books covering world history from 1450 to the present.  This database contains some full text, but if you retrieve only a citation, be sure to check the UCA catalog and our Journals List to see if the journal is available locally.

• If you’d like to search both databases, click the “Choose Databases” link and check the appropriate boxes.Use the advanced search for more searching options.  
• Use * on the end of your term for variant endings, and ? to for variant spellings.  Ex.:  slav* retrieves slavery, slaves, etc.  wom?n  retrieves woman and women
• Boolean/Phrase search mode requires “AND” to break your search terms.
• Limit by Historical Period and Language.
• Use the browse feature to limit to a time period – this feature only exists in these two databases!

 
Result List

• Click through to see important items in the full record, such as subject headings and abstracts!
• Click on the “Add to Folder” icon to collect citations you want.  These will be collected within the “Folder” on the upper right hand side of the window.
• You can save, email, export, and print the citations you’ve collected in your folder.
• If there’s not a link to full text, be sure to check our Journals List and the UCA catalog to see about accessing your article.
• To see different citation styles for a particular article, click the yellow page icon in the line of icons near the top of the screen.

Sample Searches in America History & Life

• Arkansas and (Native American* or Indian*); limit era to 500 – 1200
• revolution* and slav* and women; limit era to 1770 – 1790; limit document type to article.
• Methodis* and Arkansa*

Sample Searches in Historical Abstracts

• central Africa and imperialism; limit to English
• Shanghai and prostitute*; limit to English
• ctton and industrial revolution and (Great Britain or England)

Last Modified on 1/26/2010